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The purpose of this study was to compare aerobic capasities and recovery times according to playingpositions of elite male football players. For this reason, twenty-four professional football players whoplayed in Trabzonspor participated in voluntarily to this study. According to playing positions, playerswere divided to four different groups as three goalkeepers age: 26,0 ± 2,64 years; height: 188,8 ±2,88 cm; weight: 79,6 ± 5,13 kg , eight defencive players age: 27,1 ± 2,69 years; height: 183,5 ±5,12 cm; weight: 76,3 ± 3,06 kg , eight midfield players age: 25,8 ± 1,64 years; height: 178,5 ± 8,79cm; weight: 75 ± 7,63 kg and five forward players age: 28,0 ± 1,87 years; height: 181,8 ± 4,81 cm;weight: 73,4 ± 3,78 kg . The football players applied Yo-Yo Intermittent Recovery Level-1 Yo-Yo IR1 which was a field test and recovery times, maximal oxygen consumption, maximal heart rates, andcovered distances of players values were examinated according to positions of players. KruskalWallis-H test was used to determine significant difference between groups. According to test results,there is a significant difference p < 0.05 between recovery times, maximal oxygen exhaustionvalues, maximal heart beating numbers, and covered distances according to playing positions of malefootball players is statistically obtained. The differences between groups was determined with MannWhitney-U analyze technique. According to test results, it was found that the covered distances 1987,5 ± 260,3m and maximal oxygen consumption values 53,0 ± 2,17 ml/kg/dk of midfield playerswas greater than players who played in other positions. The forward players had better recovery timevalues 3,38 ± 0,6 dk than players who played in other positions while goalkeepers had lowermaximal heart rate 179,3 ± 8,50 atım/dk than players who played in other positions. As conclusion,it was statistically determined that aerobic power performance and recovery times of elite malefootball player was differentiated according to position of football players

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